Word: clark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the other problems the committee will confront will be tougher to deal with, since they concern the premises of education, not administration. But Clark Byse, the committee's forthright and open-minded chairman, has encouraged his group to be responsive to the students-at-large, to meet objections openly, and give the Law School's students a sense of influence on their education which has heretofore been denied them...
Swing Voter. When Clark's nomination reached the Senate, it was unanimously and swiftly confirmed. The only regrets aired on Capitol Hill, in fact, were over the elder Clark's impending departure from the Supreme Court -probably when the current term ends in June. The last of Truman's four appointees, Tom Clark earned a reputation over the years as the author of some of the court's most lucid and precise opinions (including the controversial 1963 school-prayer decision). Though known as a judicial conservative, he shunned the doctrinaire stances of some of his colleagues...
...Clark's retirement (at full pay of $39,500) gives Lyndon Johnson the opportunity of making his second appointment (his first: Abe Fortas, generally pegged as a liberal) and the problem of deciding whether to seek someone with a philosophy similar to Clark's or to reinforce the liberals' slender majority. There was the usual speculation about Government figures (Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz and Congressman Wilbur Mills), academicians (Harvard Law School's Paul Freund), and Texas friends (Houston Attorney Leon Jaworski and Federal Judge Homer Thornberry). Talk was also revived that Johnson would like...
Johnson may well get more than one chance. Before too long, other Justices -most notably Hugo Black, 81, and William Douglas, 68-may follow Tom Clark into retirement...
...search for identity common to so many American writers. The title story is a discursive account of a momentous day in the life of a precocious five-year-old. The Misfits is the cow-country ballad about obsessed horse hunters that later became a celebrated movie starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift. One of the best stories, Fitter's Night, has a sibling relationship to Miller's 1955 Broadway play, A View from the Bridge. It describes the life and hilarious hard times of Tony Calabrese, shipfitter in the Brooklyn Navy Yard...